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Mesoscale Discussion 2232
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 7, 2011, 6:00 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 14 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 2011, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 119 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 385 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 6, 11:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Lane, Logan, Norton and 4 more | 97 min |
| Oct 7, 12:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ellis, Gove, Graham, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness and 9 more | 93 min |
| Oct 7, 2:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ellis, Gove, Graham, Lane, Ness, Norton and 4 more | 96 min |
| Oct 7, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 19 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2011Every mesoscale discussion in 2011
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.